It is reactivated with a calendar of appearing parties who will attend the Chamber on June 13
The Andalusian Parliament has resumed the procedures for the approval of the proposed irrigation law in the surroundings of the Doñana National Park that confronts the Government of Juan Manuel Moreno and Pedro Sánchez and that the European Comission keep a close eye on the threat of harsh economic sanctions.
After becoming dormant during the municipal campaign, the process, which entered urgently and began its journey hand in hand with PP and Vox on April 12, is reactivated with a calendar of appearing parties who will go to the Chamber next June 13th. The Development Commission of the Andalusian Parliament, where this bill that will reclassify as irrigated land about 800 hectares of rainfed and forest soil in the towns of Almonte, Bonares, Lucena del Puerto, Moguer and Rociana del Condado (Huelva), has set today the list of those appearing with the votes of PP and Vox again.
The main agrarian and union organizations (COAG, UPA, Asaja, CCOO and UGT), the Huelva strawberry employer Interfresa, the agrarian cooperatives, affected farmers, irrigators, the mayors of the municipalities affected by the regulation and WWF as an organization will parade as appearing parties. ecologist. A retired official from the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation is summoned but no one from the current water body and the vice president and minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, is also summoned. There is jurisprudence that guarantees that the ministers and members of the Spanish government cannot be summoned by the autonomous parliaments. The vice president will not attend this appointment in the Andalusian Parliament.
Among the great absentees stands out Miguel Delibes, who presides over the Doñana Participation Council, or the director of the Biological Station of the Park, Eloy Revilla. Both scientists were very harsh with the bill before the PP and Vox joined their votes to speed up its processing, warning of the consequences of regularizing more irrigated land in the middle of a “dramatic & rdquor; for the National Park. They have also left out a representative of the Unescowho opposes the law and warns that Doñana could lose its classification as a World Heritage Site.
July 26 and 27
The procedures are already underway with room for the bill to be definitively approved in plenary session of the Andalusian Parliament on July 26 and 27. Once the process of appearances of the economic and social agents is completed, the Development Commission must prepare a final opinion that is raised in plenary session for approval. The spokesman for the popular group, Toni Martín, assured that nothing has changed and that the objective has always been “to approve it in the current period of sessions or at the beginning of the next, September, if the deadlines were extended & rdquor ;. It is not the case. The calendar indicates that, unless the political will of the PP is different and at the moment it is not, it will see the light before their lordships go on vacation in August. Just three days after the elections.
In these municipalities, the PP has easily imposed itself in the province of Huelva, so much so that for the first time since 1979 it will hold the Provincial Council of Huelva with an absolute majority. The PP has won in two of the five towns, Lucena and Rociana, but without a doubt the great political revenue in the province transcends that northern crown of Doñana.
The reactivation of the bill comes in the middle of the general election campaign on June 23 and Doñana will undoubtedly be the highlight of the confrontation between PSOE and PP. Hours before Parliament resumed work on the law, presidents Pedro Sánchez and Juan Manuel Moreno clashed on social networks over a campaign to boycott strawberries from Huelva in German supermarkets due to the controversy over irrigation. The German association Campact has launched a campaign that requires German supermarkets to stop selling red berries from Spain so as not to contribute to the drought and desiccation in Doñana. The President of the Government echoed this news to ensure that “the denialism it ruins the environment and runs the risk of ruining local economies& rdquor;, adding a “save Doñana& rdquor;. His Andalusian counterpart, Juan Manuel Moreno, replied that “manipulation has gotten out of hand & rdquor; and he regretted that the president speaks ill of “Andalusia and its farmers in Europe & rdquor ;. “They are playing with the family mole plan & rdquor ;, warned the Andalusian leader. The PP-A spokesman considered that “Pedro Sánchez’s wickedness against Andalusia knows no limits.”
Concern in employers
The employer interstrawberry He claimed “responsibility and knowledge” before the boycott campaign launched in Germany. the campaign is “insidious and harmful & rdquor;, maintain the businessmen, who point out that it is “false & rdquor; that it is being watered with “illegal sources & rdquor ;. Freshuelva (Association of Strawberry Producers and Exporters of Huelva) indicates that there are 11,740 hectares planted of berries, 0.53% more than in the previous season in the province. The queen is still the strawberry (6,295 hectares). Red berries from Huelva make up 98% of the production of this crop in Spain and 30% in the EU. represents the 9.65% of GDPdin the province of Huelva and directly employs 100,000 people already 160,000 hints. Germany and UK They continue to be the main destination countries for red berries from Huelva.
The European Commission has warned on several occasions that the bill being processed by the Andalusian Parliament goes “in the opposite direction & rdquor; to the ruling of the European High Court of Justice, which condemned Spain in June 2021 for not preserving the National Park and allowing the illegal extraction of water from the Park’s main aquifer. If approved, Brussels has warned that this sentence will allow the application of automatic economic sanctions to Spain. The Government of Spain and the opposition groups ask in unison the Andalusian Government of Moreno to order the suspension of the initiative and the PP to withdraw the bill. That route, Andalusian government sources insist, is “discarded& rdquor ;.